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· 2/2/2016

RECO Rishad Engineering Construction ORG

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  • holding that under the ACCA, Massachusetts ADW necessarily involves the use of violent force
  • concluding that Massachusetts ADW conviction does qualify as a “violent felony” under the ACCA where “[t]he cases also make clear that a mens rea of recklessness is not enough to support an ADW conviction”
  • stating that the residual clause in the career offender guideline is invalid following Johnson
  • rejecting an argument where the defendant offered \no new or previously unaddressed reason to deviate from our prior holdings\
  • describing 18 U.S.C. § 16 and the ACCA as “similarly worded federal statute[s]”
  • where Guidelines range was wrong, remanding for resentencing without addressing fourth prong of plain error

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